For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its… — Rudolf Rocker Built Copy Share Image
The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping! — Rudolf Rocker Deserve Copy Share Image
Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything, — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being. — Rudolf Rocker Courage Copy Share Image
The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave… — Rudolf Rocker Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Bent Copy Share Image
“The urge for social justice can only develop properly and be effective when it grows out of man's sense of personal freedom… — Rudolf Rocker Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
“Anarchism has in common with Liberalism the idea that the happiness and prosperity of the individual must be the standard of all… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
“The Anarcho-Syndicalists know that wars are only waged in the interest of the ruling classes; they believe, therefore, that any means is… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience… — Rudolf Rocker Asceticism Copy Share Image
Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which… — Rudolf Rocker Alliances Copy Share Image
People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material… — Rudolf Rocker Blessing Copy Share Image
We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine… — Rudolf Rocker Blood Copy Share Image
“And just as the functions of the bodily organs of plants and animals cannot be arbitrarily altered, so that, for example, one… — Rudolf Rocker Freedom Copy Share Image
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to… — Rudolf Rocker Abstract Copy Share Image
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No… — Rudolf Rocker Activity Copy Share Image
Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this… — Rudolf Rocker Action Copy Share Image
“From the daily battles against the employers and their allies, the workers gradually learn the deeper meaning of this struggle. At first… — Rudolf Rocker Daily bread Copy Share Image
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of… — Rudolf Rocker Abolition Copy Share Image
So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and… — Rudolf Rocker Buyers Copy Share Image
“For just as the worker cannot be indifferent to the economic conditions of his life in existing society, so he cannot remain… — Rudolf Rocker Daily bread Copy Share Image
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their… — Rudolf Rocker Brutal Copy Share Image
Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when… — Rudolf Rocker Dignity Copy Share Image
“Just because the educational work of the Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Bent Copy Share Image
“Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
“Liberalism and Democracy were pre-eminently political concepts, and, since the great majority of the original adherents of both maintained the right of… — Rudolf Rocker Democracy Copy Share Image
“Anarchism recognizes only the relative significance of ideas, institutions, and social forms. It is, therefore, not a fixed, self-enclosed social system, but… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
“Every type of political power presupposes some particular form of human slavery, for the maintenance of which it is called into being.… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, two other great currents in political thought, had a decisive significance on the development of socialist ideas: Liberalism, which had powerfully… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
“Modem Socialism developed when profound observers of social life came to see more and more clearly that political constitutions and changes in… — Rudolf Rocker Equality Copy Share Image
The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will… — Rudolf Rocker Enjoy Copy Share Image
“For the Anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchist Copy Share Image
“Its supporters recognised that a social equalising of human beings , despite the loveliest of theoretical assumptions, is not possible so long… — Rudolf Rocker Life Copy Share Image
“People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should only be a means to ensure to man his material… — Rudolf Rocker Culture Industry Copy Share Image
“Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you… — Rudolf Rocker Class struggle Copy Share Image
The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving… — Rudolf Rocker Driving Copy Share Image
Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge,… — Rudolf Rocker Activity Copy Share Image
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